Salvage: Cultural Resilience among the Jorai of Northeast Cambodia

Krisna Uk

Published by Cornell University Press 2016

Salvage

Cultural Resilience among the Jorai of Northeast Cambodia

Krisna Uk

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501706332

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About this book

In Salvage, Krisna Uk draws on extensive research in a Cambodian village she calls Leu to provide a unique ethnography of the Jorai, an ethnic minority group that lives in Vietnam and in the most heavily bombed region of northeast Cambodia.

Author / Editor information

Krisna Uk is Executive Director of the Center for Khmer Studies in Cambodia.

Reviews

Uk's book [is] a pioneering anthropological study of an ethnicity that has been at the fulcrum of major historical events for many decades. The author has set a high mark for those who will, we can only hope, enjoy further opportunities to undertake ethnographic research with the minority communities of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.

Kurt Borchard, University of Nebraska Kearney:

I envied her smooth transitions through discussions of dense theory, reviews of related literature, and traditional anthropological fieldwork. Clearly written and well organized, the book is also a testament to the care that many people, in this case those at Cornell University Press, put into creating such a fine work.

Magnus Fiskesjo, Cornell University:

In Salvage, Krisna Uk presents new research on how people in Cambodia cope with the aftermath of the horrific wars that have ravaged their country. She does so by probing in depth the creative engagement with these horrors of a rural community in minority ethnic areas heavily bombarded by the United States. Uk makes a very rich ethnographic contribution, with updated and contemporary information on cultures previously known mostly though older colonial-era ethnography, offering a substantial advance on everything that has come before. Her work also expands on such highly relevant aspects as the ideas about spirits of disease and misfortune, to show how people cope with trauma in ways rooted in their cultural traditions. This book will enrich the understanding of not only scholars and students but also officials in international aid agencies and others engaged in practical work in recovering war zones. Uk gives us the tools to help people in similar situations worldwide, to better focus on how people can rebuild by relying on their own existing heritage and knowledge, and on their own culturally configured ingenuity.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
List of Text Boxes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	x
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
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1. Ways of Being Jorai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Local Lives Caught in the Storm of Global History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
3. Postconflict Strategies of the Jorai Homo Faber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
4. Adjusting Rituals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
5. Aesthetic Forms of Memory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
6. Leu, Present and Future Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 6
- Images: 6
- Other: 6 halftones, 2 line figures, 1 map
Keywords: Asian Studies; Anthropology

eBook

Published: October 11, 2016
ISBN: 9781501706332